Note: Electronic Stability Control (ESC) is now a required safety feature on vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less. Thus, beginning in Model Year 2014, ESC has been removed from the list of 'Recommended Technologies' and 'Rearview Video Systems' has been added.

Side air bag (SAB) testing procedures have been developed to minimize the potential risk of SAB-related injuries for occupants, especially children, who are seated very close to a deploying SAB (called "out-of-position"). Manufacturers voluntarily report to the government whether the SABs in a given vehicle model have undergone and passed these testing procedures.

* Rearview Video Systems that are listed as Safety Features in this section are systems that may not have been evaluated against the NCAP performance criteria that are designed to ensure that the system can help drivers avoid backover crashes. These systems will be listed as a Recommended Advanced Technology Feature only after we have determined that they pass the NCAP rearview video system performance criteria.